Effective March 1, 2026, Microsoft is permanently retiring Basic Authentication for email sending (SMTP AUTH). If your Select HR system currently uses Basic Authentication to send emails, you will need to migrate to Modern Authentication.

We have completed work to enable Modern Authentication across all versions of Select HR. This includes:

Hosted Customers: We have identified hosted customers impacted by this change. If you are affected, you will receive direct communications from us with specific instructions and next steps.

On-Premise Customers: If you are running Select HR on-premise and are currently using Basic Authentication for email, please contact our Support team in the first instance. Our team will provide guidance on the steps required to enable Modern Authentication in your environment.

All customers must complete their migration to Modern Authentication by March 1, 2026. After this date, Basic Authentication will no longer work and email functionality will be impacted.

For more information about this change, please refer to the detailed customer communications that will be sent to the impacted hosted customers or contact our Support team.

If you would like to learn more about Modern Authentication for your organisation or have not received any communication and would like to know if this is likely to affect you, please contact support.

We've restored missing GDPR Consent fields to the employee details form in V4.

Two GDPR Consent fields that were present in previous versions were missing from the employee details form in V4.

The missing GDPR Consent fields have been added back to the employee details form, ensuring consistency with previous versions and maintaining compliance

capabilities.

We've improved access to cookie preference management by adding a dedicated menu item.

After users set their initial cookie preferences, they were unable to easily access the cookie policy or update their preferences again.

A "Cookie Preferences" item has been added to the user profile menu, providing permanent access to cookie settings and policy information.

We've resolved a navigation error that occurred when accessing employee details through the search facility.

When users searched for an employee and selected their details, they would encounter an Error 404 when attempting to visit sub pages.

Fixed missing context information in the entity area which resulted in menu set items missing part of the URL. Navigation now works correctly throughout employee record sub pages.

We've fixed an issue preventing users from completing absence requests on the mobile app.

Users attempting to submit absence requests via the legacy mobile app found that no data appeared in the absence request form, preventing them from completing their requests.

The data loading issue in the mobile absence request form has been resolved, allowing users to view and complete absence requests successfully.

We've eliminated excessive event log entries that were impacting system performance.

The event log was experiencing significant bloat due to recurring errors: "A public action method 'undefined' was not found on controller 'AccessSelect.WebApplication.Controllers.SystemController'."

The source of the event log errors has been identified and fixed, preventing unnecessary log entries from accumulating.

For hosted customers, update 64940 will be applied to your system starting on w/c Feb 3rd. You will be contacted with your schedule (also visible in the Admin Zone of your system).